Mike and Carol Bruno did everything right to avoid Covid-19. They refrained from hosting the big, traditional family gatherings they were used to. They stuck to phone calls and video conferences with family even though they didn’t live far away.
Thousands of students have dropped out of school due to Covid-19. These are the educators trying to track them down
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The first thing you need to know about dropping out of school is that it doesn't happen all at once. Educators say students don't just wake up one day and decide that's it, no more school. It happens slowly. They ge...
Doctors in Chicago are making house calls to give vulnerable patients the Covid-19 vaccine
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Chicago Hattie Blumenberg can't easily get to a mass vaccination center. The 90-year-old woman has limited transportation, and leaving her Chicago home would require someone physically carrying her from the house to ...
Four sisters in their 80s and 90s reunited to get their Covid-19 vaccines together
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Four elderly sisters in New Jersey haven't been able to have their regular get-togethers during the coronavirus pandemic, but they made an exception to get their Covid-19 vaccinations. Edith Camp, 96, Bernice Cecil,...
Great apes at the San Diego Zoo receive a Covid-19 vaccine for animals
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Several great apes at the San Diego Zoo have been vaccinated against Covid-19 a few weeks after the zoo's gorillas tested positive for the virus. Members of the zoo's bonobo and orangutan troops were vaccinated usi...
Is it OK to be optimistic about Covid-19 now?
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For the first time since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, a majority of Americans believe our fight against the virus is getting better in a new Gallup national poll, the latest sign that optimism is creeping bac...
Fake tax preparer gets six Covid-19 bailout loans worth more than $1 million
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His past clients say he's a scammer who ran off with their money, and a judge barred him from illegally masquerading as a certified public accountant after government officials caught on to his scheme. But none of ...
The countries making dubious claims over Covid-19 — and what that means for the world
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For the past year, countries around the world have shared data on Covid-19 cases and deaths with the World Health Organization (WHO) -- information that is crucial in informing the global fight against the disease. ...
Italy blocks export of Covid-19 vaccine doses to Australia, using EU powers for the first time
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Italy has invoked European Union powers to block the export of 250,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses to Australia, in a dramatic escalation of a dispute between the EU and drug giant AstraZeneca. The country's move marks t...
Student shot in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, school shooting has died
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A 15-year-old boy who was shot Monday at a junior high school in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, has died from his injuries, police said. The teen was pronounced dead Wednesday evening, Pine Bluff police said in a prepared st...
China approves sale of traditional medicine products to treat Covid-19
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China has approved three traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) products for sale to help treat Covid-19, the government's National Medical Products Administration announced on Wednesday. The agency used a special appro...
Reggae pioneer Bunny Wailer has died at age 73
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Reggae music pioneer, Neville "Bunny Wailer " Livingston, has died at the age of 73, Jamaica's Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport said in a statement. Wailer had been in the hospital since Decembe...
Dolly Parton has received her first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine
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Dolly Parton is showing everyone how it's done by receiving her first Covid-19 vaccination shot. The country music star got the shot at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville and recorded the whole thing...